AIPG-TX

Henry M. Wise, President of AIPG Texas Section, and Michael D. Campbell, Vice-President – Eastern Texas, made a presentation recently by FedEx of a commemorative plaque to Dr. Rima Petrossian. This action allows the Officers and the Advisory Board the opportunity to formally thank Rima for her efforts on behalf of the Texas Section of the AIPG over many years since the Texas Section was revitalized 10 years ago.

President Henry Wise announced today the appointment of Christian Martinez as the new Senior Student Councilor to the AIPG-TX Board. Mr. Martinez received his B.S. degree in geology with a minor in geophysics in 2018 from the University of Houston (Main Campus). He is finishing his work on a M.S. in geology. His thesis is on determining the magmatic history/ages of extraterrestrial materials and their relationships to early planetary evolution using Pb-Pb chronology and petrology, under Dr. Thomas Lapen. His relevant course work to date involved: Hydrogeology, Environmental Geochemistry, GeoChemical Reaction Transport Modeling, Geospatial Information’s Systems, Sequence Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Mineralogy, Field Methods, and Field Camp.

Henry M. Wise, President of AIPG Texas Section, and Michael D. Campbell, Vice-President – Eastern Texas, made a presentation recently by FedEx of a commemorative plaque to Glen Collier of Nacogdoches, Texas. This gives the Officers and the Advisory Board the opportunity to formally thank Glen for his efforts on behalf of the Texas Section of the AIPG over the past 6 years.

Pennington and Davis, both of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Texas at Austin.Texas. reported that Texas has experienced more than 100 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater since 1847. However, because the density of both seismographs and people has been very low in Texas, knowledge of the state’s seismicity is undoubtedly incomplete. The largest known earthquake in Texas occurred on Aug. 16, 1931, near the town of Valentine in Jeff Davis County. The total felt area exceeded one million square kilometers (about 400,000 square miles).

Edith Newton Wilson, President of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG, asked: A Revolution? What’s in a name? Should we call it a transition? A convergence? A transformation? A revolution? A tipping­ point? A paradigm shift?  Consider that perhaps the name is largely irrelevant, except to sell conference tickets. There’s a radical shift afoot that affects the business model for global energy delivery and consumption. And with it comes with a wealth of opportunities for energy geoscientists, as well as an obligation for every professional society to help its members prepare for the future.

In September – October 2019, Aldrich and Shoup designed and oversaw the AAPG email-based poll of all members concerning whether or not AAPG should have a position paper and, specifically, should AAPG have a statement on anthropogenic climate change. The AAPG Executive Committee has reviewed the results of that poll and considered every comment provided by the members. We now wish to share the results of that poll with the membership. The raw numbers are shown in the table below. However, the Executive Committee spent some time to sort through the data to try and understand the distribution of responses and the demographics of those that took the time to respond.